Janes v. Noorbolm

HOOD, Associate Judge.

This appeal grows out of a claim for; damages on account of an alleged violation of a rent ceiling under the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act. Code 1940, § 45 — 1601 et seq.

The premises in question, a four-room, kitchen and bath apartment, were occupied by defendant as her home on January 1,-1941, the freeze date under the Rent Act. Code 1940, § 45 — 1602. ■ At that time -she was paying $37.50 per month for the apartment, unfurnished, and that sum, by virtue of the Rent Act, became the maximum rent ceiling. Defendant continued to live in the apartment until 1944,…